/lit/ - Literature

>>19914579
If you haven't read Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky do so and watch videos like this if you need the meaning clarified.
https://youtu.be/2dnSRPPxgKg
You are literally the underground man, we all are at least in part.
Explore this disgust with your pathological inaction in life until you see no option but to cast it off and manifest in reality what due to your sickness you have been satisfied with stewing over and can no longer.
Escape your prison of debilitating intellectual self importance.
get a mfin gf.

>>19905677
overcoming the underground man inside of you. Read it if you haven't already and it will exponentially increase this disgust and urge to change yourself.
Simply epic, anon. Godspeed.

>>19898354
>I could never figure out what I wanted to do
Read Notes from an Underground Man
realize you are at least in part the underground man
realize the reason you have never committed to a specific path in life is because you're intelligence allows you to see yourself following many different paths and not being particularly drawn to any one of them by the forces that draw more limited people to said specific paths
realize you take a sick sort of pleasure in this calculating and weighing of your options and are placing yourself above these options as wells as other people, both in being able to calculate them and in thinking yourself too good for any particular one
realize that this sickness of the intellect has been the source of the inaction in your life and instead use this intellect to your advantage in most effectively pursuing the one of your choice
or something like that. Also a good chance that you can't escape this entrenched thought process. In that case just realize you aren't above effort and apply yourself to something that will manifest itself in the real world, even if its writing something few people will ever read

Good heavens, gentlemen, what sort of free will is left when we come to tabulation and arithmetic, when it will all be a case of twice two make four? Twice two makes four without my will. As if free will meant that!

Gentlemen, I am joking, and I know myself that my jokes are not brilliant, but you know one can take everything as a joke. I am, perhaps, jesting against the grain. Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense. But how do you know, not only that it is possible, but also that it is DESIRABLE to reform man in that way? And what leads you to the conclusion that man's inclinations NEED reforming? In short, how do you know that such a reformation will be a benefit to man? And to go to the root of the matter, why are you so positively convinced that not to act against his real normal interests guaranteed by the conclusions of reason and arithmetic is certainly always advantageous for man and must always be a law for mankind? So far, you know, this is only your supposition. It may be the law of logic, but not the law of humanity. You think, gentlemen, perhaps that I am mad? Allow me to defend myself. I agree that man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering--that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, WHEREVER THEY MAY LEAD.

I am the Underground man. I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think I'll never have a woman in my life.